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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Police Act, 1861 Section 30

Regulation of Public Assemblies and Processions and Licensing of the Same

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https://sooperkanoon.com/act/37685

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Police Act, 1861 Section 30 is part of Police Act, 1861 - Regulation of Public Assemblies and Processions and Licensing of the Same. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

(1) The District Superintendent or Assistant District Superintendent of Police may, as occasion requires, direct the conduct of a assemblies and processions on the public roads, or in the public street or thoroughfares, and prescribe the routes by which, and the times which, such processions may pass.

(2) He may also, on being satisfied that it is intended by a persons or class of persons to convene or collect an assembly in a such road, street or thoroughfare, or to form a procession which would in the judgment of the Magistrate of the district, or of the sub-division of a district, if uncontrolled, be likely to cause a breach of the peace require by general or special notice that the persons convening collecting such assembly or directing or promoting such process) shall apply for a license.

(3) On such application being made, he may issue a license specifying the names of the licensees and defining the conditions on which alone such assembly or such procession is to be permitted to the place and otherwise giving effect to this section: Provided that in fee shall be charged on the application for, or grant of, any such license.

(4) He may also regulate the extent to which music may be use in the streets on the occasion of festivals and ceremonies.]

{ Inserted by section 11, ibid.}

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What does Police Act, 1861 Section 30 provide?

Section Section 30 of the Police Act, 1861 (Regulation of Public Assemblies and Processions and Licensing of the Same) is reproduced on this page as part of the Police Act, 1861. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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